“Paul,” Mitchell called after me one final time. “You know my daddy would’ve near t’ killed me, he’d’ve known for sure I’d been ridin’ that stallion. . . .”
“Then good thing you weren’t riding Ghost Wind, isn’t it?” I said.
Mitchell nodded, and that was as close as Mitchell Thomas came to thanking me and as close as I came to accepting his thanks. But after that, things began to change between Mitchell and me. Now, we still weren’t the best of friends, but there was a new respect building. I believe that both of us were realizing that our judgments of each other were not truly founded. Each of us had something to him the other hadn’t seen before, and out of this realization came a real respect, not just a truce.
—The Land,
Mildred D. Taylor
Which sentence best describes the resolution of the conflict between Paul and Mitchell?
Mitchell and Paul become best friends.
Mitchell comes to like Paul, but Paul still does not like Mitchell.
Paul wants to be friends with Mitchell, but Mitchell still does not want to be friends with Paul.
Mitchell and Paul do not become best friends, but they realize that they may have misjudged each other.